That's my point, hint to some things that were worthy of Bruce's attention. But when they are gone. He keeps being Batman, trying to stop "small" crimes like murders, rapes, carjackings, but they aren't worth the toll on his body.

Seeing as how we got two movies of Batman not dealing with those "small" crimes, it's not something that bothers me as such that Batman didn't deal with those, especially with Bruce's main goal of taking out organized crime; we're not really in the know of anything else Bruce set out to achieve in Nolan's trilogy from the beginning.

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Bringing in the League seemed like trying to arbitrarily tie it to Batman Begins.

But that was intended. To tie back into Batman Begins with the League of Shadows. It had part of the beginnings of Batman and it played a part in the ending, or at least Bruce Wayne's time as Batman(if Robin John Blake becomes Batman later on).